Many states in the U.S. have Chinese and German as their third-most-spoken languages. See which U.S. states speak which languages with this map and data analysis.

Learning to read written text fundamentally alters the pathways the human brain uses to process spoken words. According to a ...

When English speakers say "rose" and Chinese speakers say "玫瑰," do they mean the same thing? A Peking University team led by ...

In 2025, over 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, yet just a handful dominate global communication. These top languages aren’t only defined by their native speakers, but also by how widely they are ...

In 2022, after the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, increased by more than 500%. Most of those who have ...